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Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic)* 校准加权排列检验检测出环极地区（楚科奇-尼夫赫语和尤卡吉尔-萨莫耶迪克语）*的古代语言联系

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Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.00014.kas

A. Kassian, George Starostin, M. Zhivlov, Sergey A. Spirin

{"title":"Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area\u0000 (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic)*","authors":"A. Kassian, George Starostin, M. Zhivlov, Sergey A. Spirin","doi":"10.1075/jhl.00014.kas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00014.kas","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Relationships between universally recognized language families represent a hotly debated topic in historical\u0000 linguistics, and the same is true for correlation between signals of genetic and linguistic relatedness. We developed a weighted\u0000 permutation test which represents the classical permutation tests with weights introduced for individual Swadesh concepts\u0000 according to their typological stability. Further, the obtained values were calibrated on a negative control group to override\u0000 non-uniform distribution of phonemes within the Swadesh wordlist. We applied the calibrated permutation test to the basic\u0000 vocabularies of nine languages and reconstructed proto-languages to show that three groups of circumpolar language families in the\u0000 Northern Hemisphere show evidence of relationship through common descent or borrowing in the basic vocabulary:\u0000 [Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh]; [Yukaghir, Samoyedic]; and [Yeniseian, Na-Dene, Burushaski]. The former two pairs showed the most\u0000 significant signals of language relationship. Our findings further support some hypotheses on long-distance language relationships\u0000 previously put forward based on linguistic methods but lacking universal acceptance.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138963372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family 玛雅语系解剖学领域的词汇语义稳定性

Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.21031.mor

David F. Mora-Marín, Megan Fletcher, Elizabeth Gorman

{"title":"Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family","authors":"David F. Mora-Marín, Megan Fletcher, Elizabeth Gorman","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21031.mor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21031.mor","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper deals with lexico-semantic stability, specifically in the anatomical domain. The main goal is to develop a method for measuring semantic polysemy and shift, in order to address: (1) the validity of standardized vocabulary lists (e.g., Swadesh 1950 , 1952 , 1955 ; Holman et al. 2008 ; Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009a , 2009b ) for investigating cross-linguistic stability; and (2) the difference between basic and stable vocabulary ( Ratliff 2006 ; Matisoff 2009 ), and its implications for studying remote relationships between language families, on the one hand, and subgroup differentiation within language families, on the other. To study these problems, a total of 50 etyma from the anatomical domain were selected from the Preliminary Etymological Mayan Database ( Kaufman with Justeson 2003 ), and these were then classified employing the novel metric, and further analyzed by means of statistical methods. The results point to: (1) no specific correlation with the stability rankings of the Swadesh and Leipzig-Jakarta lists; (2) support for the “basicness” of etyma from the anatomical domain; (3) several significant relationships between stability and polysemy scores and independent variables relevant to the anatomical domain; (4) evidence of lexico-semantic stability score affinities between Mayan subgroups; and (5) evidence supporting the utility of polysemies to investigate subgrouping and language contact. The paper also offers conclusions and areas for further research.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":"36 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Review of Reshef (2020): Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew 回顾Reshef(2020):现代希伯来语出现的历史连续性

Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.22019.gon

Einat Gonen

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Review of Tahmasebi, Borin, Jatowt, Xu & Hengchen (2021): Computational Approaches to Semantic Change Tahmasebi, Borin, Jatowt, Xu &;恒辰(2021):语义变化的计算方法

Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.22063.bec

Christin Beck

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Development of the word order of the reflexive enclitic sě/se dependent on a finite verb in Czech translations of the Gospel of Matthew from the 14th to the 21st century 14世纪至21世纪捷克语《马太福音》翻译中依赖于限定动词的反身动词svi /se词序的发展

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Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.21029.cec

Radek Čech, Pavel Kosek, Olga Navrátilová, Ján Mačutek

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Individual variation and frequency change in Early Modern Spanish 早期现代西班牙语的个体差异和频率变化

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Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.22059.bla

José Luis Blas Arroyo

{"title":"Individual variation and frequency change in Early Modern Spanish","authors":"José Luis Blas Arroyo","doi":"10.1075/jhl.22059.bla","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.22059.bla","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Based on a corpus of private correspondence written by twelve influential political and cultural figures in\u0000 eighteenth-century Spain, this article discusses several hypotheses about the role of individual variation in language change. The\u0000 study analyses five variables undergoing change in early modern Spanish and examines the idiolectal use of the traditional\u0000 variants. Several conclusions are drawn from the results. The first is that idiolectal patterns vary considerably from one\u0000 variable to another. Those variants that were clearly in the majority at the time or have undergone slower change processes are\u0000 more consistent with in-between profiles.\u0000 On the other hand, those variants that are more clearly declining or undergoing abrupt changes are represented by\u0000 more refractory patterns. Still, these profiles are not uniform, so a specific type of variation in one variant does not exclude\u0000 others. The results concerning the most decisive period in the configuration of the idiolectal distributions are less conclusive,\u0000 mainly due to the imbalances in the representativeness of the samples. However, among the variables better represented in the\u0000 corpus, the end of adolescence – set at 18 in this study – seems to be the most significant, in line with some well-known\u0000 hypotheses in the literature. Nevertheless, we have also detected a few cases of changes in adulthood. Finally, the data support\u0000 the dominance of stability in syntactic variation, suggesting that speakers change little once their idiolectal distributions have\u0000 been established. Even so, some longitudinal changes are found, albeit in a recurrent direction: the replacement of traditional\u0000 forms by alternative, more prestigious variants.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":"1347 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41278958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Alignment variations in the diachrony of Basque 巴斯克语历时的排列变化

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Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.21037.mou

Céline Mounole

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The spread of participial clauses in Biblical Greek 《圣经》希腊语分词从句的传播

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Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.22040.nar

Edoardo Nardi

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The tonal morphology of the potential in Coatec Zapotec (Di′zhke′) Coatec Zapotec (Di ' zhke ')中电位的音调形态

Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.22018.bea

Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona

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From oblique to core case in the Southern Min languages 闽南语从斜格到核心格

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Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.1075/jhl.21038.cha

Hilary Chappell

{"title":"From oblique to core case in the Southern Min languages","authors":"Hilary Chappell","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21038.cha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21038.cha","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study sets out to discuss the evolution from oblique to core case as a manifestation of overtly-marked\u0000 nominative-accusative alignment in Sinitic languages. This is due to the emergence of a type of ‘optional’ marking on preverbal\u0000 direct objects in a construction type that has become widespread in Sinitic (Chappell &\u0000 Verstraete 2019). In particular, I examine spoken discourse data from Taiwanese Southern Min whose comitative\u0000 preposition, ka7\u0000 , has grammaticalized into an optional object marker. It is argued that this marker is\u0000 undergoing morphologization into a direct object index (doi) on the main verb in the predicate, subsequent to the\u0000 omission of the resumptive pronoun it governs. The new index takes over this function of cross-referencing the lexical direct\u0000 object, typically located in the immediately preceding discourse, if not in clause-initial position.\u0000 In an epilogue, I also briefly treat the evolution of local cases such as the allative and the perlative to\u0000 optional object markers in the Southern Min languages of Shantou and Jieyang, situated in Guangdong Province, China. Both of these\u0000 are extremely rare sources in the Sinitic family, yet common in Tibeto-Burman and Romance languages. The approach adopted is in\u0000 harmony with recent diachronic studies which target source morphosyntax in order to explain the emergence of a variety of\u0000 synchronic patterns, all bearing similar discourse and grammatical functions (Cristofaro &\u0000 Zúñiga 2018).","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41928722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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